Union Minister of State for Youth Affairs and Sports (I/C), Vijay Goel praised the exemplary performance by three woman players PV Sindhu, Sakshi Malik and Deepa Karmakar at Rio Olympics and congratulated them.

Goel said that Malik, Karmakar and Sindhu
had scaled new heights in their careers at Rio Olympics and shown to the world
the real capability and exemplary courage of the daughters of India.

He also congratulated Sindhu's coach P.
Gopichand and her parents for the player's historic success at the Olympics.

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In a
statement the minister said that PV Sindhu's exemplary success to win Silver
medal at this young age in Olympics is the result of her hard work, dedication
and perseverance.

Goel also said that the credit for this
success goes to her parents too, who had always stood by PV Sindhu and devoted
their entire time and energy to make Sindhu realize her dreams.

He
stated that Sindhu went down contesting valiantly to world number one and
two-time world champion Carolina Marin of Spain and added that her efforts to
bring glory to the country in an individual event were laudable.

Woman player's creditworthy performance
would inspire younger generations in future. He hoped and informed that the sports ministry would
shortly launch preparations for Tokyo Olympics 2020 in the right earnest.